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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 52: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1957
Price Five Cents
Bon fire V ictims
At Minimum;
No Poison Ivy
Reports from college hospi
tal officials last night showed
that no injuries were sus
tained in yesterday’s bonfire
building activity, indicating
that the stress placed on safety
this year is having its effect.
The only injury inflicted so far
in the two days of working is an
axe cu(j( on the foot suffered by a
Corps sophomore Monday.
By the time the bonfire was
completed last year, 106 workers
had received treatment in the hos
pital for various ailments. Of these,
73 were poison ivy cases with the
rest being made up of sprains,
minor abrasions, cuts and eye ii’-
ritations due to cinders.
Dr. Charles Lyons, hospital
supei’intendent, warned that though
no poison ivy cases had been re
ported as of yet,. they were sure
to come. He suggested three
measures which should be taken to
combat the uncomfortable rash.
These, included staying out of the
cutting area if students are allergic
to the plant, bathing with old-
fashioned yellow laundry soap af
ter working, and washing out work
clothes before wearing them again.
“Bathe immediately after coming
out of the woods,” he remarked,
“not three days after.” Lyons said
the hospital had furnished most , of
the dorms with soap, which can
also be purchased anywhere.
Speaking of washing out work
clothes before wearing them again,
the doctor pointed out that even
men who were not allergic to the
plant could contact the rash. By
wearing the same clothes time and
again and continually coming in
contact with juices of the plant, a
man’s immunity can wear down, he
said.
French,
Discuss Tunisia
(hin Ships fieri Is
Shades of Paul Runyan
—Battalion Staff Photo
Tuesday’s action in the cutting area saw felled for the 1957 bonfire. Here a member
Aggie juniors and seniors making like him- of G Armor attacks one of the monsters in
berjacks of the past as the first trees were earnest.
Mr
curf
Fish Choose Officers
in Election Tomorrow
Many soldier-of-the-night bon
fire guards were utterly amazed
yesterday morning when by the
dawn’s early light they discovered
someone had switched flags atop
the newly erected and “well guai’d-
ed” centerpole sometime during
the night.
The Monday sun had set on an
Engineer banner, but the Tuesday
sun rose on an “E” Infantry labeled
pennant which flapped gayly in
the morning breeze.
It seems that, along toward mid
night an even half-dozen “E”
beetle-crushers had strode through
all three bonfire guard rings un
challenged by even one of the out
posts. Five of the invaders stood
chatting at the base of the pole
while one shinnied up, removed the
engineer trademark and tacked up
his own. The six flag traders then
sauntered leisurely back through
the valiant guardsmen and to the
sack, still unquestioned.
Maybe it’s a good thing those
teasips don’t have much fire! What
do you say, guards of the midnight
shift Monday night?
★ ★ ★
One certain delegate to the Tex
as Junior College Press Associa
tion here was very impressed with
A&M’s liberalism yesterday.
Observing a khaki- uniformed,
colored janitor using a push broom
in the Memorial Student Center,
the young man turned to his com
panion and remarked:
“Gee, I didn’t even know A&M
was integrated. Look, there’s a
home economics major working on
a lab project.”
Weather Today
Cool and clear today, with grad
ual warming and slow increase of
high cloudiness through Thursday
is the forecast for the College Sta
tion area.
Election of freshmen class offi
cers, members of the student sen
ate and election commission will
be held tomorrow from 8 a.m. un
til 5 p.m., W. D. (Pete) Hardesty,
student organization advisor, an
nounced yesterday.
Six voting machines have been
set up, three in the little brick
building by Milner Hall and three
by the entrance to the Memorial
Student Center Post Office for the
election.
Freshmen will vote for a presi
dent, vice-president, secretary-
treasurer, social secretary, five
members for the election commis
sion and four representatives to
the student senate. •
Running for president are: Nor
man Sydney Heaton, Donald E.
Boren, James Sherrill Hurley, Rob-
ert C. Bennett Jr., James Chand
ler Whitten, Ernest Kanak, Ben
Dickerson, Mac J. Parks, Joe L.
Gilbert, Charles C. Murphy.
Harvey Barber, Billy Thompson,
Steven J. Simmons, Laurence Ver
non Yanta, Edward Alton Todd,
Thomas Lincoln Mattick, James
Wendell Willis and John Todd
Eagle.
Candidates for vice president
Easterwood Ranks
High, Lions Told
Easterwood Airport ranks high
in the state among airports of
comparable size, Jim Stewart, fly
ing instuctor and Civil Air Patrol
leader told College Station Lions
Monday.
Stewart showed the Lions a film
on air traffic control and explained
the traffic control system used by
Easterwood. The largest college-
owned airport in the world, Easter
wood handles 91,000 landing and
take-off operations a year, he said.
Easterwood is in the top 10 in
the state, with 29, as far as owner
ship of private planes is concerned,
a very good recoi’d for its type of
field, Stewart told the group. It
is classed as a “non-hub” field,
since ,it handles only a limited
number of commercial aircraft.
Since Texas is second in the na
tion in private owned aircraft, this
is an exceptionally good recoi’d, he
pointed out.
are Richard Arthur Box, Henry
A. Fitzhugh, Terry Test, John
Thomas Williamson, James Elton
Roberts, Jr., Malcoln Bolton, Rog
er S. Terry, Billy James Cresset,
Wilmer E. Rosenberger, Frank A.
Fitzgerald, Edward Dee Rigsby.
Milton Paul Martin, Ned H.
Sandlin, William Gary Sawey,
Richard Kent Thomas and Chester
Hedderman.
The following have filed for sec
retary-treasurer: James Sharpe
Gallatin, Edgar Dean Hosier, Rob
ert Bower, Jr., Donald Jones, Ron
ald Walton Frazier, William T.
Overton, Malcolm E. Hickman, Jr.,
Aubrey C. Elkins, William Jerry
Barrington, Ray J. McQuary, Jack
D. Floyd, Guy William Keeling,
Alvin B. Dombart and Tommy C.
Tinsley.
Seniors Slated To
Get ‘'Texas Aggie’
Seniors will receive The Texas
Aggie, monthly newspaper of the
Association of Former Students,
during the remainder of the pres
ent school year, J. B. (Dick) Her-
vey, ’42, Secretary of the Associa
tion, said yesterday.
This is the first time that the
Aggie has included seniors on its
mailing list.
Nearly 19,000 former students
get the newspaper, which carries
news of the association, individual
former students, and the college.
Students classified as seniors by
the registrar’s office will receive
the November 1957 through May
1958 issues. To continue receiving
the Aggie after graduation, Her-
vey said, they should come to the
association office in the Memorial
Student Center before commence
ment and fill out a questionnaire.
Hervey has invited seniors to at
tend association meetings on the
campus and elsewhere, and through
the pages of the Aggie learn more
about the association, which initia
ted the Placement Office, the Me
morial Student Center, the Chapel,
the Archives Office, the Oppor
tunity Award Scholarships, the
Faculty Achievement Awards, and
similar projects.
A barbecue for seniors is plan
ned by the association for this
spring, Hervey said.
Running for social secretary are
Lonnie Ross Mason, James Tilman
Reeves, Charles Oualline, Gary J.
Hammer, Thomas C. Johnson,
Gary Bateman and Glenn A. Jones.
Candidates for the election com
mission are Raymond Hannigan
Jr., Robert Bower Jr., Charles E.
Oalline, John Bond, Warren Ken
neth Moore, Walter Roy Willms,
Oscar Saenz, David L. Voelter,
Kenneth Morris, Donald Ross Cox,
Bernard H. Berman and Clarence
David Council.
Henry A. Fitzhugh, William
Timothy Bond, Jimmie L. Garrett,
John Charles Blerins and Robert
S. Harris.
Those running for student senate
are Johnny Schier, Ronald Doan,
Danile Cegelski, Joseph William
Dryden, Clarence David Council,
William Franklin McFarland, Jerry
Ivey Gilliland, Robert Paul Gar
rett, Jerry M. Green, William
Walter Holmes, Norman Duane
Ayers, Victor Mikulec and James
S. Gallatin.
Billy James Thompson, Edwin
H. Moerbe, Wayne A. Dunlap,
Robert Lawrence Hughen, Win-
burn Ned Wynn, Jerry Kennedy
Weldon, Richard Owen Ellis, Ger-
net Wesley Arnold, Donald L. Bur
ris, Ben Earl Johnston, James Den
nis Day and Jack Royal.
Jack D. Floyd, Bernard H. Ber
man, Richard V. McGaughy, John
Eagle, Fred B. Hudspeth, Aubrey
C. Elkins, David R. Blue, Paul J.
Phillips, Don Van Dervort Cap-
linger and Travis Lane Wegen-
hoft.
Atlantic Alliance
Dispute Unsettled
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON —The United States and France agreed
last night to try to work out a common policy with Britain
and Tunisia governing future deliveries of arms to Tunisia.
Secretary of State Dulles and French Foreign Minister
Christian Pineau failed to resolve the angry dispute, which
has split the Atlantic Alliance, in a three-hour meeting at
the State Department.
But Pineau said they had decided “to seek a procedure”
which would avoid the danger of guns and ammunition de
livered to Tunisia falling into the hands of rebels fighting
the French in neighboring Algeria.
A State Department spokesman then reported that the
■♦■United States within the next
few days will be in touch with
Britain, France and Tunisia to
Date Tickets Go
Off Sate Saturday
Approximately 1,250 date
tickets are still available for the
Thanksgiving Day game in Kyle
Field.
About 3,500 tickets for dates
were set aside for the game;
1,541 were sold in September at
$2.50. An estimated 750 have
been sold since they went on sale
Monday at the regular price,
$3.50.
Sales were rather slow yester
day, according to Athletic De
partment sales personnel.
Tickets are scheduled to go off
sale Saturday noon, if they are
not sold out before then.
Kiwanis Told Of
Aggie Intramurals
A&M boasts one of the top
intramural programs in the United
States, the head of the sports pro
gram told Kiwanians yesterday at
their luncheon meeting.
“On this campus particularly
there is a need for an extensive
intramural p r o g r a m,” Barney
Welch told the group. “It plays a
very important part in Aggie life,
expecially since there are no girls
here or no nearby cities to provide
recreation.”
About 80 percent of the Corps
participate in the program and
approximately 50 per cent of the
Civilian students.
Interested Ags
May Go Abroad
For Training
A program for the ex
change of students for tech
nical experience, the Interna
tional Association for Ex
change of Students, will be
available to interested Aggies this
year.
Under the program advanced
undergraduate students are train
ed in the industrial techniques of
other nations. Companies cooper
ating in the program cover ex
penses incurred by student trainees
in a foreign country.
Students interested should sub
mit an application with details of
training, background and field of
interest. Applicants should also in
dicate first and second choice in
whose countries he has working
knowledge. Students must pay $20
registration fee and transporta
tion expenses to the country and
back.
There were 5,711 students from
21 member countries participating
in the program last year.
Aggies interested in the program
in the summer of 1958 should con
tact the offices of the Dean of
Engineering, Graduate School or
the departments of Electrical Engi
neering, Mechanical Engineering,
or Industrial Engineering. Appli
cations must be in New York by
December 15.
“work out an approach as to
arms deliveries in the future”
The United States and Britain
sent Tunisian President Habib
Bourguiba 920 guns and more than
50,000 rounds of ammunition last
week in the face of strong French
protests. Diplomatic informants
said that no further shipments are
planned immediately.
Pineau told Dulles the U. S.-
British move had created a “great
emotional reaction” in French pub
lic opinion and in Parliament.
State Department press officer
Lincoln White said Dulles “ex
plained to Mr. Pineau that we
had obtained undertakings from
the Tunisians” that the arms would
be used exclusively for their in
ternal security and self defense
and “we are sure they will coope
rate.”
Fees Payable
Installment fees are now pay
able in the Fiscal Office for the
third payment of the fall semes
ter. The $50.30 covers room
rent, board and laundry for No
vember.
Deadline for the payment is
tomorrow.
Gripes Causing
City to Tighten
Building Laws
Several infractions of a city
ordinance requiring a permit
to build, remodel or repair any
property in College Station
have been called to the city’s
attention recently. Ran Boswell,
city manager, said yesterday.
Boswell said several cases of
building or remodeling had been
reported lately by zoning com
mittees. The unauthorized build
ing has been going on in a small
degree during the past, but in the
last few weeks an increased number
of cases have been reported.
“Simply not knowing about the
need for getting a permit is the
chief cause for the violations, I
believe,” Boswell said.
He pointed out that Ordinance
No. 45 requires any person who
builds, moves, extends, enlarges;
converts, reconstructs, structurally
alters or destroys any building or
structure located within the College
Station city limits to secure a
building permit from the city if
the cost is to exceed $50.
“By filing information on the
project and getting a permit, not
only does the city know of it, but
the builder protects himself since
he also avoids the chance Of
violating a zoning ordinance,
which could be even more serious,”
Boswell said.
A building permit application
will be examined by the city engi
neer. If he finds the building to
be done in accordance with zoning
laws of the district, the permit will
be endorsed promptly and granted
the builder.
Building permits range in price
from $1 to $10, according to the
cost of building or repair work to
be done.
UN Club Plans
Meeting, Dance
Dancing from different nations
highlights the proposed program
for the UN Club meeting Friday
night.
Meeting at 7:30 in the YMCA,
the boys from foreign strands will
see a Jananese spring dance by
Miss Koko Sasaki and an American
ballet by Miss Carolyn McDonald.
CC to Get Opinions
Of Past Fund Drive
In an A&M College-College Sta
tion Community Chest committee
meeting last night, drive leaders
decided to take an opinion poll of
College Station citizens getting
their opinion of the drive and the
organizations it supports.
Still short of the $14,950 goal,
the 1957-58 chest closed yesterday
as the week’s extension of the drive
ended.
Slightly more than $11,500 was
reported turned in last night by
Richard Vrooman, drive co-chair
man. He said he felt a few more
hundred dollars might be collected,
but that the chest would still be
short of the original goal.
“We want to make the commun
ity chest go over,” Vrooman said,
“It is for the people and we feel
the best way to secure their full
support is to give them what they
want. We need their opinion and
feel the best way to get it is
through an opinion poll.”
He said although he was slightly
disappointed that the goal was not
reached, the $11,500 figure repre
sented 78 percent of the goal and
must be considered a successful
collection. He said he hoped 85
per cent of the goal would be reach
ed through continued contributions.
Vrooman maintains that the chief
reason for the drive not reaching
the $14,950 mark was due to many
people objecting to some of the
charities and organizations sup
ported by the fund. He said many
letters and statements had been
received by drive officials stating
this reason for not donating to the
chest.
Questionnaii’es will be sent out
to all College Station citizens with
in the next month asking their
opinion about the 15 charities and
organizations supported by this
year’s drive, which they liked or
disliked and why.
The largest objections were to
the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
Vrooman said. Many felt that these
organizations were not of the type
to be supported by such a collec
tion he said.
The chest co-chairman said that
if public opinion disapproved of
such organizations as the scouts,
they would either have to be cut
out of the drive or at least their
appropriations lowered in future
drives.
“It is too late to change this
year’s drive, but the information
we get from the poll will be very
valuable for future chest drives,”
Vrooman said, “Reports received
by the committee will be studied
closely, especially the reports on
the scouting groups.”
At present, scouting is one of
the things most heavily supported
by the drive.